Hand-package for clay pigeons



' F. w. KASACK. JR. HAND PACKAGE FOR CLAY PIGEONS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. I0. 1920. 1,356,069. Patented Oct. 19, 1920.

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HAND PACKAGE Fon CLAY PIGEoNs.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. l0, 1920.

vPatented Oct. 19, 1920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. l

FREDERICK VJ. KASACK, JR., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WIN- CHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO.. OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORA- TION.

Application filed March 10, 1920. Serial No.`364,73`5.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. KAS- Acn, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hand-Packages for Clay Pigeons; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of the reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear` and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in-

Figurel. a plan view of my improved hand-package.

Fig. 2. a side view thereof.

Fig. 3. a view partlyin side elevation and partly in section of one of the unit packages.

Fig. 4. an end view thereof.

Fig. 5. a view in side elevation of a barrel showing one method of packing the handpackages in a barrel.

Fig. 6. a broken end view of the barrel.

Heretofore the clay pigeons used in trapshooting have been supplied to the trade in minimum lots of five hundred packed in litter in barrels. While this method is satisfactory in supplying gun-clubs, which have a fixed locality with a club house for storage and a machine-trap for throwing the pigeons, no provision has been made for meeting the requirements of individual trap-shooters, growing out of the increasing use of hand-traps which require neither a club house nor a fixed locality forthe sport. On account of their extreme frangibility, it is not practicable for the individual shooter to go to a sporting-goods store and buy over the counter, the number of pigeons required for an afternoons shooting, and obviously,

1t is not feasible for the sportsman to handle i and transport a barrel of clay pigeons, containing even the minimum number-of five hundred.

The object of my present invention, then, is to meet this requirement and provide a cheap, simple, and convenient package containing a relatively small number of clay pigeons for the use of the individual shooter, and at the same time to produce a package of a character which can be packed easily and safely in barrels for shipment from the factory to the retailer or distributer.

With these ends in view, my invention con- HAND-PACKAGE FOR CLAY PIGEONS.

Specification of Letters ifatent. Patented Oct. 19, 1920.

sists in a hand-package for clay pigeons, having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim, my improved package being characterized by its construction on the principle of forcing the pigeons into direct intimate contact, whereby they are held against relative lateral and longitudinal displacement by engagement with each other, as distinguished from fragile-article.packages of the prior art constructed on the principle of isolating the articles so as to prevent their Contact, on which their eiliciency depends.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, I employ ten package-units, each adapted in capacity to contain ten clay pigeons 2 so as to firmly hold the same without other packing, against relative lateral or endwise movement. Each of the said package-units consists of a short paper tube 3 closedat its ends by closely fitting, struckup, paper caps or covers 4:. 1

vTen of such packages are packed in pairsin an oblong box 5, byy preference made of corrugated card-board and provided with corresponding cover-iiaps 6. The respective pairs of the package-units are arranged parallel with respect to each other, but separated from each other by removable transverse septa x of corrugated card-board, whereby the box 5 is virtually divided into live equal compartments 8 extending transversely to its major axis. The elements of each pair of package-units are abutted directly together, end to end, and each pair is provided with two trough-shaped saddles or buffers 9 of corrugated card-board and respectivelylocated above and below it.

All of the elements of my improved handpackage, as thus described, are respectively proportioned in size so that when the package is closed there can be no relative movement of anyrof its contents. Furthermore, on account of the corrugated structure of the materials used, no ordinary blow or pressure upon the exterior of the package can be communicated to thefrangible clay pigeons contained in it.

The hand-package for clay pigeons thus produced is cheap, convenient, light, and handy, and enables the individual shooter'to easily provide himself with a moderate number of clay pigeons for an afternoons sport decided advantage to the wholesale trade, since such packages may be readily and economically packed in barrels l0, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, without the employment of litter found to be objectionable to the retailer when it comes to unpacking the barrels. I-Iere I may say that it is virtually necessary to use barrels in the transportation of clay pigeons on account of their eX- treme frangibility, since barrels are much more elastic and therefore safer containers than rectangular fiat-sided cases.

It appears from the foregoing description that in my improved package the pigeons are maintained against relative lateral and longitudinal displacement by being held in intimate, direct engagement with each other, whereby the maximum economy of space is secured as well as a high degree of security against breakage, whereas fragile-article packages of the prior art have been invariably constructed on the principle of securing the permanent isolation and hence the avoidance of any contact between the articles themselves, which greatly increases the bulk of the packages and is attendedwith a high percentage of breakage uness the articles are isolated to an extent which would eX- pand the packages in bulk far beyond any size which could be called a hand-package or which could be sold over the counter as such.

I claim: I

A hand-package for directly superimposed clay-pigeons, comprising, in combination, a rectangular box of corrugated cardboard, a pre-determined number of cylindrical, flatended package units, each consisting of a short tube corresponding in internal diameter to the external diameter of the clay pigeons to be packed, and two flat caps, whereby the pigeons are held within the said package units against relative lateral and longitudinal displacement by direct nesting engagement with each other, by direct peripheral engagement with the side walls of the tube, and by direct face engagement with the in` ner faces of the respective caps; transversely arranged septa dividing the said box into a series of equalk compartmentsA extending transversely to the major axis of the box and having the package units arranged in them end to end, in pairs; and saddles of corrugated cardboardpositioned. in the upper and lower portions of the said compartments lengthwise therewith and therefore above and below the pairs of package units therein. all of the said elements being proportioned in size to prevent the relative movement of any of them within the box after the same is closed.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in they presence of two subscribing witnesses. y

FREDERICK W. KASAGK, J R.

Witnesses: n

DANIEL H. VEADER, Y ERIK S. PALMER. 

